Christian Froeschlin nous illumina en ce 2008-10-02 13:02 -->
> Mathuin wrote:
> 
>> This same thing has bugged me, but disabling UAC is not an acceptable 
>> solution
>> in my situation.  Is there any chance of a better solution which works 
>> within
>> the operating system instead of requiring interference with security? 
> 
> I don't have Vista, but I wonder if it would object if you
> just specified a location within your personal %APPDATA% folder
> as installation target for the POV installation. Then the INI
> files should be writable. Just for one user, of course.
> 
The common workaround is:

Refuse the default install path.
Install POV-Ray in a custom, user defined folder.
It can be something like: D:\MyGraphicPrograms\POV-Ray\

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Alain
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